We offer for sale a fantastic vintage original Mezzotint painting, printed on thick wove paper with beautiful colour circa1900, it depicts a beautiful young woman in a stunning vintage dress, from approximately 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, British art witnessed its last great flowering of the art of the mezzotint, one hundred years earlier such great masters as Richard Earlom, Valentine Green and David Lucas had elevated the English mezzotint to its highest level, as the Victorian era commenced, however, the pure mezzotint was overshadowed by both the mixed method engraving and by mass production techniques such as steel engraving and lithography, Mezzotinting was both labour intensive and very artistically demanding as well, very few impressions could be pulled from the delicate mezzotint plate, British mezzotints from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are even more technically demanding as most were printed in colours employing multiple plates, the dimensions are 34cms by 38cms, they are framed and mounted under glass, I am happy to deliver locally for a small fee or arrange a courier nationally